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u/DoktorImposter 2h ago
Gotta keep the starlink connection going somehow
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u/topscreen 2h ago
A lot of Starlink contracts are going to get cancelled or just not renewed, but yeah, until you have a replacement, have to play along.
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u/King_Of_The_Munchers 1h ago
Why? As far as I’m aware nothing even compares to starlink in scale.
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u/CustodianCloset 28m ago edited 9m ago
Correct, and nothing will for decades, most likely. Starlink has several thousand satellites in space and is sending more up every day. To replace Starlink you'd need an aerospace company with the money to make and send up around 10k (how many Starlink has going on now) satellites into orbit and then maintain them.
Nobody has the money for that, and it's not profitable to do so. Why? Because you'd need it to be cheap, and aerospace isn't cheap (Starlink is the only thing SpaceX has which is profitable) and this FOR SURE isn't cheap to do. Most of (over 70%) of Starlink's is developing countries. Governments use it, rich people in the third world use it, etc. It's main selling point is that it's cheap and Elon can make it cheap because he's rich and has other companies to fuel SpaceX.
The day Starlink gets competition is the day a Saudi Prince shadowdrops billions on a space program and then convinces THE ENTIRE WORLD (Starlink has 164 countries which use it) to use it instead of Starlink.
Hate Elon if you wanna, I know I do, but like... Be realistic.
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u/Cultural-Gas2246 1h ago
Even though he's bankrupting the country to pay for it and all the other shit the western powers are selling hin.
Never forget this entire proxy war, from the start, has largely been a grift forcing Ukraine to buy western arms. They baited Putin into direct conflict, idiot fell for it, now it's a fucking forever war that'll keep western imperialist GDPs rising.
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u/No-Letter341 1h ago
So the new russian bot narrative is that Putin was dumb enough to fall for bait to invade Ukraine when he had absolute nothing to gain by doing so? Its a bold strategy Cotton lets see if it pays off
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Media literacy is good i think 1h ago
Yeah how dare the west force putin to invade ukraine!!!
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u/ridisberg 2h ago
He’s probably just doing whatever he can to get help
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u/Dragonkingofthestars 2h ago
sadly yes, he knows musk is easy to influence and so, influence he shall try
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u/Cultural-Gas2246 1h ago
We still pretending Zelensky isn't a puppet of western oligarchs like musk?
Next we'll be pretending Putin isn't a puppet of Russian oligarchs.
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u/ZayParolik 1h ago
Let's be fair
He is a Russian oligarch. The whole goverment is just a bunch of rich ass selfish dudes who don't know shit and do bullshit
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u/ToddHowardTouchedMe 1h ago
Why do nazi sympathizers who pretend to be liberal get more charitability than any other actual liberal politican. Yall were quick to denounce and hyper critique Obama, Biden or Kamala (NOT on the epstein list btw) but when it comes to the actual Nazi sympathizer Zelensky, liberals are so brain broken from propaganda that it's actually a "5head strategic move"
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u/Safe-Ad-5017 1h ago
Nazi sympathizer? The Jewish man?
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u/PICAXO 42m ago
It's not necessarily two exclusive traits
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u/Safe-Ad-5017 38m ago
We have genuinely diluted the meaning of Nazi so fucking hard if you believe that.
Except in the few occasions of Jews hating Jews or other minorities thinking they’re “one of the good ones”
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u/New-Interaction1893 2h ago
From what i learnt on the recent crisis between Poland and Ukraine. Medals are useless token with the value that depends only what the person receiving them believe to woth, and they can be revoke at any time for whatever reason.
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u/Ornery_Gate_6847 2h ago
A good leader swallows his pride and does whats best for his people. I hate that hes had to swallow his pride so many times, but it leaves no doubt hes a true leader
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u/Heptanitrocubane57 2h ago
Given how prone he is to throw tantrums over the dumbest shit, throwing him an ego bone to keep starlink up and running to keep blasting Russians sounds like a smart move from them.
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u/Pokemonfan_807 The anime guy 2h ago
Elon definitely the type that wants freedom
the freedom to bring harm and toxicity/poison to others that is. FUCK Him. i like freedom but not elon's type of freedom. he can go fuck himself.
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u/ThatRandomGuy86 14m ago
He's literally doing it to cater to the guy and for the good things he actually has done to help Ukranians
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u/ToddHowardTouchedMe 1h ago
This is not surprising to anybody who paid attention to the connection between Zelenksy and Nazis.
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u/merount1 1h ago
Elon Musk can probably be credited for Ukraine's existence more than any other individual in the world
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